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Magical Harry Potter sales for supermarkets
Asda and Tesco have reported magical sales of the final instalment in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which went on sale on Saturday.Asda, which slashed the price of the book from an RRP of £17.99 to just £5,...
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AG Barr secures Scottish football sponsorship
Irn Bru maker AG Barr has secured a three-year sponsorship deal with the Scottish Football League.The £3m deal is the biggest sponsorship deal to date for AG Barr and will include all three divisions of the SFL.“We're looking forward...
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Delta Two lines up former Asda director
Delta Two, the Qatari-based investment fund which last week revealed it had made a £10.4bn approach for Sainsbury's, has lined up former Asda deputy CEO Tony Campbell to chair the retailer if its bid is successful.His appointment would be an...
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McCain gets on Tractor with 100%-UK pledge
McCain Foods is to become the first frozen food manufacturer to carry the Red Tractor logo on its chips, following a pledge to use only British potatoes.From September its chips will carry the mark back of pack and the claim that "100%...
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What the papers said - 21st July 2007
Of all the papers covering the outcome of the Cadbury court case this week, the Mirror took the hardest line with the headline: 'Cadbury fined £1m for poisoned chocs'. Cadbury pleaded guilty to nine food safety offences, following this year's...
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Price Survey - 21st July 2007
Tesco's new swingometer advertisements proudly declare it has the cheapest prices on the high street, but this week's The Grocer 33 finds the retailer to be only the third-cheapest retailer behind Morrisons and Asda. Morrisons won the battle of the...
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acid test - Mateus Shiraz
Expert's verdict: 6/10 ?I wasn't convinced by the new Mateus varietal. The rosé market has been boosted by developments in drier wines. However, the notion of a French vintage varietal under the Portugese brand is contradictory. Building a New World...
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Stormy weather fails to dent promotion activity
Though soup sales have shot up 30% year-on-year as a result of the wettest June on record, beers, wines and spirits took the lead.
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Tesco sales recover after bomb threat
An increase in Sunday trading at stores involved in last weekend's bomb scares helped Tesco claw back lost sales, the retailer said.Fourteen Tesco stores - including a couple of Extras and an Express - were forced to close last Saturday...
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Asda aims to keep up in Birmingham
Asda is hoping to build a £25m store on the site of the former MG Rover plant at Longbridge in a bid to prevent erosion of its market share in Birmingham.Asda shares market leadership in the Birmingham postcode with Tesco, with 26% of...
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Aldi offers ostrich steak for barbecue
Aldi is selling frozen ostrich steak in its UK stores as part of its Endless Summer barbecue range.The German discounter is promoting ostrich as an alternative to chicken, on the strength of its low-fat content. It claims a 100g serving...
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Co-manager Alicia Markiewicz
Alicia Markiewicz, 29, had long harboured an ambition to be a physiotherapist. But after failing her finals in Poland, she decided to take a break to think things through. When the opportunity arose to come to the UK last year, she came to stay...
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Allergen-reduced freshener arrives
A range of allergen-reduced air fresheners for the home is being launched by Sara Lee next month, backed by a £6m package, including £1.6m in-store activity.Puresse, a sub-range of Ambi Pur, is the first allergen-reduced air freshener...
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Virgin and Dixons in online wine alliance
Virgin Wine boss, Rowan Gormely, has confirmed the online retailer has several more non-wine website partnerships in his sights, following a tie-up with electrical retailer Dixons."The industry needs to diversify if it is to continue to...
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Farmers angry as they fail to benefit from chain price hikes
Small and independent retailers could run short of milk as farmers threaten to tear up supply contracts and sell their milk themselves.First in the firing line are the lowest-paying contracts for farmers - usually those to supply milk...
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Mushy peas anyone?
It is the day after serious flooding hit the north of England and I am standing with Colin Wright, agricultural manager at Birds Eye, in a pea field in Hull. With scare stories doing the rounds in the national press about the threat of...
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Not such a wizard PR tactic for Asda
Asda was forced into a humiliating climbdown this week over a PR stunt that backfired spectacularly.Ahead of the launch of the final Harry Potter book today (Saturday), Asda issued a release accusing publisher Bloomsbury of "holding kids...
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We ask... does the lottery generate business?
Retailers surveyed this month greeted the news that Camelot has retained the licence to run the UK's National Lottery with mixed feelings. Slightly more than half of c-store owners say they are pleased that the lottery is staying in the hands of...
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Organic products more likely to face availability problems
Availability down the organic aisles is worse than anywhere else in store, according to ECR UK research revealed exclusively to The Grocer.A survey of 200 stores revealed availability levels of just 88.8% compared with 96% for...
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Tesco defies the bad weather - Q&A and Availability
Shoppers are finally witnessing the consequences of the recent rain. This week's survey shows how availability of fresh produce has suffered with 10 out-of-stock items across the six stores. The conspicuous zero out-of-stock score for Tesco in...